Another process at work here is the laying out for the foundation of what the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood meant to set out on in their collective work. At the time, Rossetti was merely in the beginning stages of setting out what it was he wanted to accomplish, and would one day join other of his contemporaries in attempting to materialize. This purpose, as is hinted at in the sonnet, was a concept that would endure throughout the period of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The focus of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, along with the other artists in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, was on the paradigm of beauty and morbidity. This was a feature that can be seen in various works by this group of artists, such as Ophelia by John Everett Millais and Lady Lilith by Rossetti. The former painting, of a drowned lady awash in murky waters, was an attempt by Millais to capture how a woman could still be beautiful, perhaps even more so, in death. This is an example of trying to bring beauty to a normally disturbing, unpleasant concept: death. Rossetti’s painting of Lady Lilith, on the other hand, is of a woman who is brushing her hair. The lady herself is, according to mythology, the first woman to appear to the biblical figure of Adam, but was cast away when her evils nearly destroyed him. This is another example of how the Pre-Raphaelites tried to make a comparison between the beautiful and the morbid. In many cases, it was the beauty of form that uplifted the morose material. In other cases, it was the sad, longing brushwork that altered normally picturesque or beautiful content into a more hushed response from the audience.